Workers AI Update: Hello, Mistral 7B!

This post introduces the Mistral 7B model to Cloudflare Workers AI, highlighting its performance advantages due to grouped-query attention. It provides technical details on how to use the model via REST API and Worker scripts, and explains the concepts of attention, multi-head attention, multi-query attention, and grouped-query attention with diagrams and references to relevant research papers. The post also discusses the trade-offs between these attention mechanisms in terms of quality, memory usage, and inference speed.